[FFmpeg-devel] Files crashing FFmpeg

[Maxim Poliakovski]

Mike Melanson wrote:
> Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>> Mike Melanson wrote:
>>> Mike Melanson wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>>>>       
>>>>>> Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>> This list http://tranquillity.ath.cx/ffmpeg_crashfiles.txt contains
>>>>>>> links to files that crashes a FFmpeg version from 2007. Can anyone come
>>>>>>> up with a good tool so we can run through and check all these files ?
>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>> Download them and attempt to decode them.  Did I miss something?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>         
>>>>> It's over 5000 files and maybe there are more things to look at then 
>>>>> just if it crashes FFmpeg.
>>>>>       
>>>> I should be able to come up with a tool. It's what I do these days.
>>>>     
>>> I finally downloaded and processed as many as I could. I was able to 
>>> obtain about 4400 of the original 5100+ samples. Initial results 
>>> indicate that more than half (2316) of the samples return 0 when fed 
>>> into FFmpeg. I construe that to mean that those samples now work. I will 
>>> have a more detailed breakdown of the problems in the next few days.
>>>
>>> I also learned that FFmpeg can bring Mac OS X to its knees.
>>>
>>>   
>> Goodie. Here comes a list of the most uncommon files (video codecs) 
>> found by Picsearch.
>>
>> http://tranquillity.ath.cx/uncommon_video_codecs_final.txt
>> http://tranquillity.ath.cx/codecs.txt
> 
> Wow! Processing that list of crashers was like having to eat my 
> vegetables. This list is more like dessert!
> 

The lot of them are in the Intel I.263 format ("h263i"). At this time
FFmpeg supports this codec partially (no PB-Frames and so on). I can
imagine that someone can experience problems playing these videos back.
I just tried to play them back using my own decoder plug-in for
QuickTime and it works without problems. I didn't try it with FFmpeg
though...
The plug-in mentioned above is based on the source code I've posted long
ago here: http://multimedia.cx/I263Src.zip

Unfortunately I don't have time to port it to FFmpeg, so if anyone feels
themself like this, please do it! I'll help you as much as I can...

Regards
Maxim Poliakovski